Leinster Minor Hurling Championship 2016

[redsetanta]

Any news for todays game?

[grover]

One change. Dowling out,injured. James Keyes in.. Hear Aaron Bergin and Cilian McEvoy could be on bench.

[Keyser Söze]

Saw the end of this.
Just sort of died off. Didn't appear to be much fight in them.

[south Laois]

Very disappointing performance. Apart from Joe Geany, nobody else was up to scratch. Our first touch and striking was very poor. One thing that stood out was the size and strength of the Dublin team.

[on the hop]

really poor performance, one of the poorest in the last few years. dublin far stronger physically and far slicker in their hurling even though they are no world beaters. even allowing for this the general poor execution of the basic skills was a surprise, first touch throughout the field was awful . i generally thought we had a chance considering it was our third game and dublin are not playing their dual players, but it was awful stuff. tactics such as leaving our centre back marking space didn't help either.

From early on it was obvious we were not going to win, first touch was non existant allowing numerous rucks where the bigger dubs horsed us off the ball and we seemed to have no one bar comerford who could actually field a ball above their heads. ill discipline and a very fussy referee allowed dublin a lot of frees to settle them down and we really never troubled them. no one bar geaney and the keeper who couldn't be faulted were up to the task. the two injured guys and the missing phelans were a big loss but it still would be a big ask. a lot of our trumpeted players were found out.

i hope the u-21's are better prepared.

[Keyser Söze]

Have heard Mark Rooney Clonaslee new Minor Football Manager and Paul OShea Abbeyleix new Minor Hurling Manager.Any thought's ? Don't know anything about either of them!

Unusual appointments. First one I'd be happy enough with.
Not sure what achievements to date make the latter an appropriate appointment to this level? Nothing personal.

Should never have been given the job!

[LOVEGAA]

A very badly managed team imo.
Mid field a serious problem in 3 games and  nothing done about it.

our 1st touch was terrible and we lacked any sort of intensity